Help! Panasonic SA-HT940 error F61

Same problem as everyone else! One day turned the dvd player on and it gave me erroe code F61! I opened the player to take my dvd's out and then it opened half way and will not close now. It will not do anything at all besides show the error code F61. The fans on and that is about it. HELP PLEASE! thrasher_dsn@yahoo.com

I have had the player for about two years, and over the last month I have been getting an F61 error, but after a couple minutes it would turn on. Tonight I had the same error and now it wont even turn on.I have had the player for about two years, and over the last month I have been getting an F61 error, but after a couple minutes it would turn on. Tonight I had the same error and now it wont even turn on.

AnonymousMar 03, 2009

When I turn my system on, it says "hello f61:> I looked this up and it said it was speaker problem.When I turn my system on, it says "hello f61:> I looked this up and it said it was speaker problem.

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it is fault of cooling system, and sound output error, if fan is disconnected or not running F61 comes on screen then nothing happends, power sound ic is the main cause of the device, not only cleaning works, may need to change the the power sound out put ic.

I kept hitting the disc exhange/eject button to turn the unit on and after a couple of tries it finally opened about half way. The whole reason i wanted to open it was to get the last dvd that i watch out of it. Well in doing so i noticed that there were some discs rattling around up underneath the cd tray (from my 1 1/2 year old). After shaking the unit a couple of times i was able to get the discs out of the underside of the disc tray. When i hit the disc exchange to close the try the unit powered up, closed the tray, and operated fine and i am back to using it like i used to with out any other problems.

Although the Panasonic Home Theater systems are great when they work properly. If your machine displays the "f61" error message, it's likely to be little more than a paper weight for the average person. The inner workings of the machine are rather complex to disassemble for diagnostics. And can take several hours to check all the components. The best advice I can give you is to sell the machine on e-bay as a broken item. If you offer shipping you can get more money for a complete system (speakers & all).